The Bookmark Café will be open until midnight on Monday through Wednesday and
until 10:00 p.m. on Thursday. It will then be closed until the spring semester begins.

12/16 : New Databases and Extended Hours

Produced by the International Relations & Security Network and the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute, FIRST: Facts on International
Relations and Security Trends provides statistics and reports on world military activities,
weaponry, treaties, governments, political terror, human rights, and much more.

A new trial database is Theatre in Video that provides
complete streaming video of the world's leading plays from the ancient Greeks up through the 20th
century, including the complete works of Shakespeare. It also provides many documentaries
about theatre with rare archival footage.

The next Library Competency Exam will be on Friday at
10:30 in Life Sciences 139. This will be your last chance to take it this semester.

11/27 : Trial Databases and Concert

Three new trial databases for your enjoyment are
Small Business Resource Center that provides management assistance
to current and prospective small business owners via a combination of reference books, handbooks,
textbooks, and nearly 200 business journals; DemographicsNow Library Edition
that provides geographic business intelligence with key demographic information on income, housing,
race, age, education, and consumer expenditures to aid in determining who potential customers are,
where they live, what they spend money on, and how much they spend; and
Thomson Gale LegalForms that provides over 1,000 professional attorney
forms with descriptive summaries, legal explanations, and instructions.

On Friday, the library will be proudly hosting its first
Acoustic Night @ the Library. Take
a break from your studies and experience the talents of our performers, including
Dan Conklin, Jonathan Elsas, Doug Conklin, and Joe Russo. Refreshments will be served.
All are welcome to this free event that is being co-presented with the Student Government Association
and begins at 7:30 in the library lobby.

On Friday, the library will be proudly hosting its first
Acoustic Night @ the Library. Take
a break from your studies and experience the talents of our performers, including
Dan Conklin, Jonathan Elsas, Doug Conklin, and Joe Russo. Refreshments will be served.
All are welcome to this free event that is being co-presented with the Student Government Association
and begins at 7:30 in the library lobby.

On Friday, the library will be proudly hosting its first
Acoustic Night @ the Library. Take
a break from your studies and experience the talents of our performers, including
Dan Conklin, Jonathan Elsas, Doug Conklin, and Joe Russo. Refreshments will be served.
All are welcome to this free event that is being co-presented with the Student Government Association
and begins at 7:30 in the library lobby.

The new exhibit in the library lobby is Mega to Mini and Beyond
that "focuses on mankind's fascination with sizes and the race to be either the biggest or the
smallest. It explores several interesting themes such as: massive & miniature trees; the actual
sizes of animals; large & miniature books; nanotechnology & its developments in the fields
of computers, robotics & medicine; DNA & the Human Genome Project & the uses of
DNA in fingerprinting, human cloning & genetically modified foods; media & the historic
development of television; and the convergence of media into portable hand-held devices such as
the iPhone & much more."

Next Friday, November 30, the library will be proudly hosting its first
Acoustic Night @ the Library. Take
a break from your studies and experience the talents of our performers, including
Dan Conklin, Jonathan Elsas, Doug Conklin, and Joe Russo. Refreshments will be served.
All are welcome to this free event that is being co-presented with the Student Government Association
and begins at 7:30 in the library lobby.

11/15 : New Literature Database and Secrets Beneath the Sound

Our newest database is Gale's
Literature Criticism Online, an extensive compilation of
literary commentary that covers both classic and popular authors and their works across regions, eras,
and genres by excerpting what many critics have written about them in journals, magazines,
newspapers, books, encyclopedias, broadsheets, and pamphlets. How attitudes toward the works
may have changed over time is demonstrated by criticism written during the authors' lives through
to the present day, including what various great authors wrote about their predecessors. Many entries
also include biographical and/or critical overviews of the authors and works, along with author
interviews. It includes the digitized full text of the hundreds of volumes in the ten Thomson Gale sets:
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism,
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800,
Shakespeare Criticism, and Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism, as well as
Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and
Children's Literature Review.

On Friday, the Post Library Association will present Adam Grohman
to discuss his underwater research and explorations of Long Island shipwrecks and maritime history in
Secrets Beneath the Sound. All are welcome to this free event
that begins in the library lobby at 8:00 p.m.

On Monday, please join us on for a Library Brown Bag demonstration
of SmartBoard presented by Emily Walshe. The SmartBoard is an interactive whiteboard for
computer projected presentations. This introductory session will focus on how to apply this
technology for bibliographic instruction: from mobile setup to colorful toolkits to sophisticated
applications for saving and sharing your work.

On Thursday, the School of Education and the Instructional Media Center invite
all Education undergraduate and graduate students to a demonstration of
SMARTBoard Interactive Whiteboard Basics.
This touch-sensitive interactive whiteboard connects to the computer and projector and
enables you to control all computer applications directly from the display. It is a powerful
medium for engaging students and audiences and has several tools for enhancing
presentations and discussions. It begins at 3:45 in the Library Instruction Lab.
Space is limited, so plesase R.S.V.P. (There will be another demonstration coming in
early December.)

On Friday, the Post Library Association will present Adam Grohman
to discuss his underwater research and explorations of Long Island shipwrecks and maritime history in
Secrets Beneath the Sound. All are welcome to this free event
that begins in the library lobby at 8:00 p.m.

On Monday, please join us on for a Library Brown Bag demonstration
of SmartBoard presented by Emily Walshe. The SmartBoard is an interactive whiteboard for
computer projected presentations. This introductory session will focus on how to apply this
technology for bibliographic instruction: from mobile setup to colorful toolkits to sophisticated
applications for saving and sharing your work.

Mark your calendars for November 30th when Acoustic Night @ the Library
presents C.W. Post students in concert, singing and performing their own compositions.
All are welcome to this free event. Refreshments will be served. Watch this space for more information.

On Thursday, the School of Education and the Instructional Media Center invite
all Education undergraduate and graduate students to a demonstration of
SMARTBoard Interactive Whiteboard Basics.
This touch-sensitive interactive whiteboard connects to the computer and projector and
enables you to control all computer applications directly from the display. It is a powerful
medium for engaging students and audiences and has several tools for enhancing
presentations and discussions. It begins at 3:45 in the Library Instruction Lab.
Space is limited, so plesase R.S.V.P. (There will be another demonstration coming in
early December.)

On Friday, the Post Library Association will present Adam Grohman
to discuss his underwater research and explorations of Long Island shipwrecks and maritime history in
Secrets Beneath the Sound. All are welcome to this free event
that begins in the library lobby at 8:00 p.m.

11/07 : Competency Exam and APA Citation Style

On the APA Citation Style page: corrected
"(1998, November-December)" to read "(1998,
November/December)"; removed the link to APA's page of
citation samples for internet sources because it's no longer available on their site
(they want people to pay for it now); and added some additional explanatory notes about
the difference between citing journals and magazines. APA is also making some
changes to their citation rules, so watch this space.

A new trial database is Historical Statistics of the United States
that provides statistical data on population, race, migration, labor, education, health, economics, industries,
government, crime, war, slavery, and more.

On the Special Collections page, there is now a description of the
Joseph Cameron Cross Theater Collection of over 300 letters
and 50 theater programs as well as many Christmas cards, postcards, articles, and a
great many theatrical photographs.

Two new trial databases are Value Line Research Center
that provides stock quotes, company news, extensive graphing, market updates, portfolio tracking,
and more and Morningstar Library Edition that contains investment
information for over 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, closed end funds, and exchange traded funds.

The Academic-Student Affairs Advisory Committee has posted a
resource manual
to help point students, faculty, and staff to the webpages and/or contact people in the appropriate
campus offices that can answer their questions about campus operations and programs.

Added some direct links to LexisNexis' intellectual property reference books on the
patents and copyright database page, as well as a note about
how to focus your journal search onto this topic.

On Tuesday, the M.A. Exhibition will open in the Hutchins Gallery,
featuring the work of Tara Daverio, Rosemarie Buscemi Elder, and Caitlin Jablow. The
artists' reception will be on Wednesday from 5:00-8:00.

On Tuesday, the M.A. Exhibition will open in the Hutchins Gallery,
featuring the work of Tara Daverio, Rosemarie Buscemi Elder, and Caitlin Jablow. The
artists' reception will be on Wednesday from 5:00-8:00.

Replaced an incorrect picture of John Marshall Harlan with a correct one on the
Constitution Quotations and Personalities page.
(Who'd have thought that there were two Supreme Court justices with the same name?) Managed to find
public domain pictures of Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Ewart Gladstone, and Thomas Paine
that I could add while I was at it.

On Thursday, there will be a demonstration of RefWorks, a web-based tool for managing
your citations. Presented by Rob Battenfeld, this introductory session will focus on database
basics, including creating your own personal RefWorks account, importing citations, and
generating formatted bibliographies. Part of the Library Brown Bag series.

10/16 : Legal Resources

Added direct links to more components within the LexisNexis database. You
can now go straight to the Federal & State Cases, Federal & State Codes, Shepard's Citations,
and Law Reviews on the Law Databases page and the Tax Laws
& Cases on the Accounting Databases page.

On Thursday, there will be a demonstration of RefWorks, a web-based tool for managing
your citations. Presented by Rob Battenfeld, this introductory session will focus on database
basics, including creating your own personal RefWorks account, importing citations, and
generating formatted bibliographies. Part of the Library Brown Bag series.

10/14 : RefWorks Demo

On Thursday, there will be a demonstration of RefWorks, a web-based tool for managing
your citations. Presented by Rob Battenfeld, this introductory session will focus on database
basics, including creating your own personal RefWorks account, importing citations, and
generating formatted bibliographies. Part of the Library Brown Bag series.

10/10 : Course Evaluations and LIU Dissertations

The results of the course evaluations filled out
by the students at the end of each semester are now available on the university's website.
However, they can be accessed only from public
computers in the library's Reference Commons, Bibliographic Instruction Lab, and Instructional Media Center
(IMC), not from computers in the IT computer labs or elsewhere on campus. Also added links to them from the
alphabetic list of databases and the
frequently asked questions page.

Added a Long Island University page to the list of
databases by subject to create a home for these two as well as a
few other things that had previously been scattered around because they didn't quite fit into
the other categories.

A new trial database is Literary Reference Center
that contains the full text of reference books, journal articles, and more. It provides criticism, plot
summaries, and author biographies, as well as the full text of the literary works themselves.

This evening, Gale seems to be having technical difficulties with access to the books in the
Gale Virtual Reference Library, although the
other Gale databases seem to be working. If you need online reference books tonight,
Credo Reference is still working.

Classical Music Archives is no longer available, but you can still get music audio
files from Naxos Music Library.

10/01 : Latin American Writers

In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the newest library exhibit is
Latin American Writers, focusing on the life and works of :
Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Junot Diaz, Oscar Hijuelos,
Nicholasa Mohr, Himilce Novas, Octavio Paz, Loida Maritza Perez, Richard Rodriguez, Gary Soto,
and William Carlos Williams. On October 10, there will also be the lecture,
Living la Vida Loca, with Dr. Erica Frouman-Smith.

This Friday, the Post Library Association will present the lecture,
Trekking Through the Grand Canyon with Robert Loveland
discussing the wildlife, plants, and geology encountered during a five day hike. He will be
accompanied by a Power Point presentation featuring the best of many photos taken during
the trip. All are welcome to this free event that begins at 8:00 p.m. in the library lobby.

We've set up a trial of NoodleTools, a set of online
research tools that help you to pick a topic, take notes, organize your research, create
bibliographies, and format your citations into APA or MLA style.

This Friday, the Post Library Association will present the lecture,
Trekking Through the Grand Canyon with Robert Loveland
discussing the wildlife, plants, and geology encountered during a five day hike. All are welcome to this free event.

This Friday, the Post Library Association will present the lecture,
Trekking Through the Grand Canyon with Robert Loveland
discussing the wildlife, plants, and geology encountered during a five day hike. All are welcome to this free event.

This Friday, the Post Library Association will present the lecture,
Trekking Through the Grand Canyon with Robert Loveland
discussing the wildlife, plants, and geology encountered during a five day hike. All are welcome to this free event.

The first Library Brown Bag of the semester has
been scheduled for October 18, so bring your lunch and learn all about
RefWorks, a web-based tool for managing your citations.

09/20 : Trial Accounting Database and Human Research Subjects

A new trial database is ProQuest's Accounting and Tax with Standards
that combines the full text of accounting periodicals with standards from the leading boards, FASB,
GASB, and IASB, including original pronouncements, statements, interpretations, bulletins, opinions,
and much more. A password is required. To obtain it, please contact the Reference Department at
(516) 299-2305. You can also check out our other
accounting databases.

A new database is Library Literature and Information Science
Retrospective: 1905-1983 that provides access to nearly
80 years of citations to periodical articles, books, theses, and more, documenting all the
innovations, controversies, and people instrumental in the making of modern librarianship.
It includes the full text of Wilson Library Bulletin from 1914 to 1983.

On Wednesday, the library is co-sponsoring the lecture,
Living in a Democracy, with Dr. Steven Scalet of Binghamton
University that will explore what happens when a majority of the people oppress a minority of the people.
It begins at 12:30 in the Hutchins Gallery on the library's lower level.

New in the Hutchins Gallery is the exhibit, Les Passagers N.Y.,
featuring sculpture, ink paintings, digital prints, and painting with mixed media by SONAMOU,
a group of Korean artists based in Paris. The opening reception
will be on Wednesday from 6:00-8:00. See the
press release for samples
and more information.

Also new, in Reference Commons, is the exhibit, Lewis Carroll,
featuring original artwork by Christina Tumminello.

On Wednesday, the library is co-sponsoring
Living in a Democracy, a lecture by Dr. Steven Scalet of Binghamton
University that will explore what happens when a majority of the people oppress a minority of the people.
It begins at 12:30 in the Hutchins Gallery on the library's lower level. It's part of C.W. Post's
Constitution Day celebrations that also include
the library's new exhibit, Censorship in Public Colleges and Universities, an
examination of instances where violations of rights guaranteed by the First Amendment took place on
college campuses over the past fifty years. Also, on the library's website, you can find the
complete text of the Constitution,
quotes from public figures about the Constitution, and a
bibliography of resources in the Reference Department
to help you research the Constitution.

09/16 : "We the People..."

As part of C.W. Post's
Constitution Day celebrations, the new
exhibit in the library, Censorship in Public Colleges and Universities,
examines instances where violations of rights guaranteed by the First Amendment that took place on
college campuses over the past fifty years. In addition, on Wednesday, the library is co-sponsoring
Living in a Democracy, a lecture by Dr. Steven Scalet of Binghamton
University that will explore what happens when a majority of the people oppress a minority of the people.
It begins at 12:30 in the Hutchins Gallery on the lower level. Also, on the library's website, you can find the
complete text of the Constitution,
quotes from public figures about the Constitution, and a
bibliography of resources in the Reference Department
to help you research the Constitution.

First, the bad news: ERIC, GPO Monthly Catalog, International Political
Science Abstracts, A Matter of Fact, Mental Measurements Yearbook, Social
Work Abstracts, and its accompanying NASW Clinical Register will no longer be available from
WebSpirs. The good news is that ERIC is still available from several
other vendors, and GPO Monthly Catalog is still available
from FirstSearch. International Political Science Abstracts, Mental Measurements
Yearbook, and Social Work Abstracts should soon be available from Ebsco.
A Matter of Fact has been discontinued by its publisher.

Section 4 of the Library Workshop
has been cancelled. Section 1 begins on Tuesday, September 11 at 3:30. Sections 2 and 3 begin
at the end of October.

Naxos Music Library changed the link that should be
used to access it back at the beginning of August. If you were having a problem accessing it,
this was the reason why. The links have all been updated now, and remote access has been restored
so that you can use it from home.
There is also a problem with accessing six of the databases from WebSpirs that we're looking into.

Section 4 of the Library Workshop
begins on Thursday, September 6 at 5:45, and Section 1 begins on Tuesday, September 11 at 3:30.

Naxos Music Library changed the link that should be
used to access it back at the beginning of August. If you were having a problem accessing it,
this was the reason why. The links have all been updated now, but, for the moment, it can be
accessed only from computers on campus. Remote access from off-campus computers should be
restored soon. There is also a problem with accessing six of the databases from WebSpirs.
We're looking into the problem.

Three new databases from Sage Full-Text Collections
provide the full text of ninety-five journals in Education,
Health Sciences, and Psychology
with some of the backfiles going as far back as 1879.
Science Reference Center includes the full text of
reference books, periodicals, and more, covering all the sciences with materials suitable for
grades one through twelve and higher. In addition, it provides teachers with standards-based
content by indexing articles into categories taken from state and national curriculum standards.

PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES
are no longer available from ProQuest due to a corporate merger, but both databases
are now available from Ebsco.
World Almanac from FirstSearch has morphed into
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and Four Almanacs.
LexisNexis has created a new interface for their site.
Pierian Press has stopped production of three databases: Consumers Index,
Media Review Digest, and Matter of Fact FactSearch.

LexisNexis has created a new interface for their site.
They have also moved everything around. I'm in the process of changing all the links
throughout the library's website, but, until then, the old links will take you to their general homepage.

From Information Technology: "Electrical Maintenance is being performed
in the C.W. Post Library on Friday, August 24th. This will be
performed in the evening hours to minimize its impact on the university community. During the maintenance period,
some campus-wide computing services may be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any
questions, please feel free to call the IT Department at x2281."

08/22 : Library Workshop Schedule, Network Downtime, Holiday Hours

The schedule for the Fall Library Workshops has
been posted. Section 4 begins on Thursday, September 6.

From Information Technology: "Electrical Maintenance is being performed
in the C.W. Post Library on Friday, August 24th. This will be
performed in the evening hours to minimize its impact on the university community. During the maintenance period,
some campus-wide computing services may be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any
questions, please feel free to call the IT Department at x2281."

Science Reference Center includes the full text of
reference books, periodicals, and more, covering all the sciences with materials suitable for
grades one through twelve and higher. In addition, it provides teachers with standards-based
content by indexing articles into categories taken from state and national curriculum standards.

Pierian Press will no longer be producing three databases:
FactSearch, Consumers Index,
and Media Review Digest. They should be disappearing any
day now, but we'll keep the links on our site until they do. Also any day now, ProQuest will no
longer be carrying PsycINFO and
PsycARTICLES. We've already subscribed to them from
Ebsco but will keep the ProQuest links up until they stop working.

From Thomson Gale: "The Gale Virtual Reference Library will be
unavailable today [Thursday] between 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The product will be
unavailable due to unscheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this
might cause you."

Because the Gale Virtual Reference Library and Credo Reference/XreferPlus
collections contain so many reference books (226 and 250 respectively), the individual titles
will no longer be listed on the general Reference
Books & Encyclopedias database page. Just the link to each of these two service's
homepage is now listed there, along with all of the links to reference books that we subscribe to from
various other companies. A complete list of all the Gale titles is on the
alphabetic list of databases, and the Credo titles will be added soon.
All titles from all companies can be browsed on the subject pages.

06/21 : Psychology Databases

The PsycINFO and
PsycARTICLES databases are now available from
the Ebsco vendor. Our access to them from ProQuest will end on June 30 due to a corporate merger.

From I.T.: "On Thursday, June 14, 2007, at 7:00-8:30 pm, LIU Information Technology
will be working with our Internet service provider in an effort to trouble-shoot a hardware failure.
During this time, you may experience some temporary Internet outages."

Remote access has been added to Books in Print Professional and
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory so that you can
search them from home. Remote access has also been added to the
full-text journals that are made available from Science Direct, IngentaConnect, and
Emerald Fulltext. You can access those sites directly through the links on the
alphabetic list of databases and various other places. But the easiest
way to take advantage of them is to let them work seamlessly behind the scenes through the
regular databases (just click the "find full text"
link when you find an article that you want) or through the standardized
Serials Solutions
periodicals search page. Both will access full text from all the databases, not just these three.

On Monday through Thursday in the library, "the experience of the
Summer Teaching with Technology Institute is available
to all full-time faculty. This annual event brings together faculty of diverse
disciplines from across the university, providing support for the exploration
of instructional technologies, and generates dialog on the pedagogically effective
use of technology for teaching and technology." See their webpage for the schedule of
events and registration information. Funded by the
Teaching & Learning Initiative of the
Office of Academic Affairs.

On Monday through Thursday in the library, "the experience of the
Summer Teaching with Technology Institute is available
to all full-time faculty. This annual event brings together faculty of diverse
disciplines from across the university, providing support for the exploration
of instructional technologies, and generates dialog on the pedagogically effective
use of technology for teaching and technology." See their webpage for the schedule of
events and registration information. Funded by the
Teaching & Learning Initiative of the
Office of Academic Affairs.

On Monday through Thursday in the library, "the experience of the
Summer Teaching with Technology Institute is available
to all full-time faculty. This annual event brings together faculty of diverse
disciplines from across the university, providing support for the exploration
of instructional technologies, and generates dialog on the pedagogically effective
use of technology for teaching and technology." See their webpage for the schedule of
events and registration information. Funded by the
Teaching & Learning Initiative of the
Office of Academic Affairs.

Added many more online reference books and direct links to the
United States History database page. Tried to organize them a bit too.

Serials Solutions links together different databases so that, if you find a
citation to an article that you want in a database that does not include the full text, you can
be taken directly to another database that does include it. Look for a link that says
"Article Linker", "Check for full text", "Find alternate full-text",
or something similar, and click it. An new feature of the service is that it now takes you directly
to the text (if available) instead of the intermediate search results page. There may be a pause
at a blank screen for several moments while the text is loading. If the automatic transfer doesn't
work correctly or if you would prefer to get the text from a different database from the one that
Serials Solutions selects, you can still get to the results page by clicking "Get additional
resources related to this".

In observance of Memorial Day weekend, the library will be open
from 9:00-3:00 on Friday, from 9:00-4:00 on Saturday, and will be closed on Sunday and Monday.

05/21 : New Trials for PsycINFO

We've added trials of PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES from
Ebsco so that comparisons can be made with the Cambridge versions
of those databases. Our current vendor, ProQuest, will no
longer be offering them after June.

In observance of Memorial Day weekend, the library will be open
from 9:00-3:00 on Friday, from 9:00-4:00 on Saturday, and will be closed on Sunday and Monday.

The library has extended its hours for finals.
Reference Commons will be open until 1:00 a.m. on Monday night.
Other departments will keep their normal hours.
For people who need more time, the
Interfaith Center will
be open from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. on Monday night through Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday, the library will close when the last exam in the building is over.

On the database front, twenty-one new online reference books have been added to the
Biography page.

The Library will be open from 9:00-5:00 on Wednesday through Friday.
The BookMark Café has already closed for the Summer.

Looking ahead to next week, on Wednesday, May 16, C.W. Post will be hosting
the Nassau Library Association's 36th Annual Continuing Education Conference,
New Technology for a New Generation.

05/06 : More Databases and Extended Hours

The library has extended its hours for finals.
Reference Commons will be open until midnight on Sunday and until 1:00 a.m. on Monday.
On Tuesday, we will close when the last exam in the building is over.
Other departments will keep their normal hours.
For people who need more time, the
Interfaith Center will
be open from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. on Sunday and Monday nights.

On the database front, Philosophy and
Religion have been given separate pages with
lots of new online reference books added to each.

The library has extended its hours for finals.
Reference Commons will be open until 1:00 a.m. on Monday through Thursday and until
midnight on Sunday. Other departments will keep their normal hours.
For people who need more time, the
Interfaith Center will
be open from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. on Sunday and Monday nights.

Links to the individual online reference books within the XreferPlus and
Gale Virtual Reference Library collections are being added to the
database subject pages. A title has been added to
Accounting, and a separate section for online books has
been added to General. The Arts and Humanities
page has been renamed Art and Design because the other
Humanities have their own pages (or soon will). A section for Fashion
now exists on it, and the Photos section is now called Images
because it now also includes reproductions of works of art.

The Special Collections Department invites you to visit our
newly completed exhibition of scanned images of some of the
delightful writings and illustrations created Berta and Elmer Hader. These 1st edition works are housed within the
American Juvenile Collection. The Haders were a
married couple who authored and illustrated
many young people's books in the 30's, 40's and 50's. The exhibition is located on the Second
Floor in the hallway of the East Wing right in front of the Special Collections Department.

On Monday, the library will begin extended hours for finals.
Reference Commons will be open until 1:00 a.m. on Monday through Thursday and until
midnight the following Sunday. Other departments will keep their normal hours.

Thanks to everyone who took time to complete the library survey
during the last three weeks. Soon the survey results
will be available and the process of analysis and planning to
improve library services will begin. Watch for future
announcements of results and outcomes.

The last Library Competency Exam of the semester will be
given this Friday at 12:00 noon in Humanities Hall, room 119. If you are graduating this semester
and have not yet taken it (or the library workshop), this will be your last chance.

Also on Friday, the next webcast that the library will be making available is
Library Education: Facing New Realities. It will present highlights
from a forum held at the Seattle ALA meeting, along with new discussions. Faculty and students from
the Palmer School are especially welcome to join us.

From April 9 through April 27, the library is inviting all C.W. Post campus faculty,
students, and staff to participate in the Association of Research Libraries'
LibQUAL+™ survey. This library service quality survey
measures library users' perceptions
of services and resources. The information gathered through the survey will be used by the
library to plan future services to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at
C.W. Post.

The last Library Competency Exam of the semester will be
given this Friday at 12:00 noon in Humanities Hall, room 119. If you are graduating this semester
and have not yet taken it (or the library workshop), this will be your last chance.

Also on Friday, the next webcast that the library will be making available is
Library Education: Facing New Realities. It will present highlights
from a forum held at the Seattle ALA meeting, along with new discussions. Faculty and students from
the Palmer School are especially welcome to join us.

From April 9 through April 27, the library is inviting all C.W. Post campus faculty,
students, and staff to participate in the Association of Research Libraries'
LibQUAL+™ survey. This library service quality survey
measures library users' perceptions
of services and resources. The information gathered through the survey will be used by the
library to plan future services to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at
C.W. Post.

04/17 : New Databases, Art Exhibit, Refworks, Lecture

Our newest database is Xreferplus that
provides access to over 250 reference books from 50 publishers, covering topics such as art,
medicine, history, technology, science, law, literature, quotations, business, social sciences,
and more, for a total of over 2 million entries. It includes images, data tables, audio pronunciation
files, and more. Direct links to individual titles from the database subject pages will be added soon.

Links to SPIN: Sponsored Program Information Network have been added to the
alphabetic list of databases and to various subject database
pages such as Directories. The links to this database of
funding sources for research and more will work on campus. To obtain a password to access
it from off campus, please
contact the LIU Office of Sponsored Research.

On Thursday, there will be a Refworks Workshop for Faculty.
RefWorks allows users to generate their
own personal bibliographic database by importing references from text files or online databases
into personal accounts. These references can then be integrated into papers and
formatted into bibliographies.

From April 9 through April 27, the library is inviting all C.W. Post campus faculty,
students, and staff to participate in the Association of Research Libraries'
LibQUAL+™ survey. This library service quality survey
measures library users' perceptions
of services and resources. The information gathered through the survey will be used by the
library to plan future services to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at
C.W. Post.

04/15 : Due to poor weather, the library will be closing at 8:00 on Sunday, April 15

On Thursday, there will be a Refworks Workshop for Faculty.
RefWorks allows users to generate their
own personal bibliographic database by importing references from text files or online databases
into personal accounts. These references can then be integrated into papers and
formatted into bibliographies.

From April 9 through April 27, the library is inviting all C.W. Post campus faculty,
students, and staff to participate in the Association of Research Libraries'
LibQUAL+™ survey. This library service quality survey
measures library users' perceptions
of services and resources. The information gathered through the survey will be used by the
library to plan future services to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at
C.W. Post.

The LIU Office of Sponsored Research
has made available SPIN: Sponsored Program
Information Network, a database that consolidates information about funding opportunities for
research, scholarship, programs, residencies, conferences, creative projects and more in order
to help users make comparisons between a multitude of programs and their sponsors and
therefore pick the best prospects for their funding applications. For more information or to
access the database from off-campus,
contact the office. It will
be added to the database list soon.

Also on Friday, you can come to the Library Instruction Lab at 12:00 to view the teleconference,
The Best from the Web.

Some additions have been made to the library's hours.
Reference Commons will now be open until midnight on Wednesdays and Thursdays and until
10:00 p.m. on Sundays. Also, the schedule of extended hours for
final exams has been posted.

From April 9 through April 27, the library is inviting all C.W. Post campus faculty,
students, and staff to participate in the Association of Research Libraries'
LibQUAL+™ survey. This library service quality survey
measures library users' perceptions
of services and resources. The information gathered through the survey will be used by the
library to plan future services to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at
C.W. Post.

04/10 : New Library Hours, Competency Exam, Teleconference, Survey

Some additions have been made to the library's hours.
Reference Commons will now be open until midnight on Wednesdays and Thursdays and until
10:00 p.m. on Sundays. Also, the schedule of extended hours for
final exams has been posted.

Also on Friday, you can come to the Library Instruction Lab at 12:00 to view the teleconference,
The Best from the Web.

From April 9 through April 27, the library is inviting all C.W. Post campus faculty,
students, and staff to participate in the Association of Research Libraries'
LibQUAL+™ survey. This library service quality survey
measures library users' perceptions
of services and resources. The information gathered through the survey will be used by the
library to plan future services to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at
C.W. Post.

04/09 : The Survey Begins, Reception, Competency Exam, Teleconference

From April 9 through April 27, the library is inviting all C.W. Post campus faculty,
students, and staff to participate in the Association of Research Libraries'
LibQUAL+™ survey. This library service quality survey
measures library users' perceptions
of services and resources. The information gathered through the survey will be used by the
library to plan future services to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at
C.W. Post.

On Tuesday, there will be a reception for our
2007 Faculty Scholarship Showcase from 11:30-1:30 in
Reference Commons. This exhibit of many recent publications by the C.W. Post faculty
will be on display through June 1st.

Now on display on the library's upper floor, the
Special Collections Department
showcases the library's historical collection of children's books with images from the
works of Berta and Elmer Hader.

On April 5th, there will be a webcast training session for the
Turnitin plagiarism detection software. Faculty and administrators are invited to come to the
Library Instruction Room or to log on from their own computers.

From April 9 through April 27, the library is inviting all C.W. Post campus faculty,
students, and staff to participate in the Association of Research Libraries'
LibQUAL+™ survey. This library service quality survey measures library users' perceptions
of services and resources. The information gathered through the survey will be used by the
library to plan future services to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at C.W. Post.

The Post Library Association Annual Booksale is here!
On Thursday, it will be open to the Long Island University community and PLA members from 8:00-5:00.
On Friday (8:00-5:00) and Saturday (12:00-4:00), it will be open to everyone.

March 30th marks the 200th anniversary of the end of the slave trade in the British Empire.
The BBC has created many webpages covering slavery and abolition that have been added to
our page of slavery websites. The United States was not part of the British
Empire at the time, and, unfortunately, continued the practice for some time longer (scroll down a bit
when you get there).

The selective list of subject encyclopedias and other reference
books has been updated with some our new acquisitions.

For the past few days, there have been technical problems with the
Books in Print Professional database. The company is
working to resolve them.

On April 5th, there will be a webcast training session for the
Turnitin plagiarism detection software. Faculty and administrators are invited to come to the
Library Instruction Room or to log on from their own computers.

From April 9 through April 27, the library is inviting all C.W. Post campus faculty,
students, and staff to participate in the Association of Research Libraries'
LibQUAL+™ survey. This library service quality survey measures library users' perceptions
of services and resources. The information gathered through the survey will be used by the
library to plan future services to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at C.W. Post.

03/28 : Booksale and Spring Break Hours

The Post Library Association Annual Booksale is here!
On Thursday, it will be open to the Long Island University community and PLA members from 8:00-5:00.
On Friday (8:00-5:00) and Saturday (12:00-4:00), it will be open to everyone.

From April 9 through April 27, the library is inviting all C.W. Post campus faculty,
students, and staff to participate in the Association of Research Libraries'
LibQUAL+™ survey. This library service quality survey measures library users' perceptions
of services and resources. The information gathered through the survey will be used by the
library to plan future services to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at C.W. Post.

03/25 : Coming Soon: Library Survey and Annual Booksale

From April 9 through April 27, the library is inviting all C.W. Post campus faculty,
students, and staff to participate in the Association of Research Libraries'
LibQUAL+™ survey. This library service quality survey measures library users' perceptions
of services and resources. The information gathered through the survey will be used by the
library to plan future services to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at C.W. Post.

The Post Library Association Annual Booksale is coming.
On Thursday, it will be open to the Long Island University community and PLA members from 8:00-5:00.
On Friday (8:00-5:00) and Saturday (12:00-4:00), it will be open to everyone.

03/22 : Teleconference, Lecture, Movie Posters, Trial Database

On Friday, the Library Brown Bag series will present access to the College of DuPage teleconference,
Library Transformation: Making It Happen. Noted librarians will discuss
library transformation, not as an abstraction or buzzword, but as something real with hard, practical
ideas on what is necessary to make it happen. It will begin in the Library Instruction Lab at 11:45 a.m.

On Friday, the Library Brown Bag series will present access to the College of DuPage teleconference,
Library Transformation: Making It Happen. Noted librarians will discuss
library transformation, not as an abstraction or buzzword, but as something real with hard, practical
ideas on what is necessary to make it happen. It will begin in the Library Instruction Lab at 11:45 a.m.

The newest exhibit in the library lobby is Generations of Women
Moving History Forward, that pays tribute to the wisdom and tenacity of women of prior and
present generations who have worked together in furthering the progress of women.

03/19 : Women's History Month Exhibit, Competency Exam, Lecture

The newest exhibit in the library lobby is Generations of Women
Moving History Forward, that pays tribute to the wisdom and tenacity of women of prior and
present generations who have worked together in furthering the progress of women.

Our newest database, from the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense
and Security, is the Homeland Security Digital Library that
covers terrorism, public health, school violence, emergency response, border security,
and more, to provide access to over 40,000 homeland security policy and
strategy related documents to support needs of local, state & federal analysts
and decision makers as well as academic researchers. With the addition of this, we now have
enough online resources in this area for the creation of their own
Terrorism and Homeland Security page with
links to related encyclopedias, reference books, and other databases.

From I.T.: "On Thursday March 15th 2007, Information Technology
will be performing mandatory maintenance on
the University network and systems. During this time, Internet connectivity and systems access will be
unavailable. Maintenance work will begin at 8:00 PM and will be completed by 11:00 PM. We have scheduled this
maintenance to have least impact on regular working hours; however, we apologize in advance for any
inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact your local Information Technology office
at: (516) 299-2281 for C.W. Post and (718) 488-1082 for Brooklyn."

From I.T.: "On Thursday March 15th 2007, Information Technology
will be performing mandatory maintenance on
the University network and systems. During this time, Internet connectivity and systems access will be
unavailable. Maintenance work will begin at 8:00 PM and will be completed by 11:00 PM. We have scheduled this
maintenance to have least impact on regular working hours; however, we apologize in advance for any
inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact your local Information Technology office
at: (516) 299-2281 for C.W. Post and (718) 488-1082 for Brooklyn."

03/13 : New Doors

You may have noticed that the new doors are being installed in the front
entrance of the building. And, to celebrate, I added some new pictures of the Bookmark Café
to the renovations page because ... uh ... I don't have any
pictures of the new doors (scroll all the way to the bottom).

A new database is Keesing's World News Archives
that provides the full text of news articles about world politics dating back to 1931.
It covers, with their historical context, such topics as elections, wars, treaties, diplomacy,
security issues, legislation, and more.

On Wednesday, there will be a closing reception for the KoreaNOW
exhibit in the Hutchins Gallery.

On next Friday (February 16), the Post Library Association will present the lecture,
Marine Life of Long Island Estuaries, with Robert Loveland.
All are welcome to this free event.

The schedule of library competency exams has been
posted. The first one this semester will be on Thursday, February 8 at 2:00.

The trial was a success, and ViewsWire
has been added to our database subscriptions. It provides daily business intelligence on over
200 countries, highlighting up to 250 key economic, political, and market developments around the world.

We added a page of links where faculty and students can find documentation and videos to help
them learn about the Turnitin plagiarism detection service to which we subscribe.

On the alphabetic database list, each of the links
to the reference books in the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) now leads directly to the
individual book instead of the GVRL main page. From there, you can browse through each
book's index or table of contents. You can still search through the book's text by using the
box on the left or by going to the basic or advanced search pages. We'll be beginning the
process of making this change to all the subject database pages soon.

The front doors to the library are going to be replaced, and students, faculty, staff,
and alumni are invited to submit designs for
stained glass images to go in the arched windows above them. The winning
designer(s) will be awarded $500 for each window and
receive recognition on a plaque in the library. The deadline is February 1. For more details, go to
www.liu.edu/stainedglass.

Section 4 of the Library Workshop begins on Thursday,
January 25. Section 5, which would have started in March, has been cancelled.

There are seven new trial databases from Ebsco and
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts that cover sociology, social services, political science,
education, environment, history, and library & information science.

The front doors to the library are going to be replaced, and students, faculty, staff,
and alumni are invited to submit designs for
stained glass images to go in the arched windows above them. The winning
designer(s) will be awarded $500 for each window and
receive recognition on a plaque in the library. The deadline is February 1. For more details, go to
www.liu.edu/stainedglass.

01/23 : Welcome Back (and Have a Cup of Coffee)

Section 2 of the Library Workshop began on Monday,
January 22. Section 1 begins on Tuesday, January 23. Section 4 begins on Thursday, January 25.

The Bookmark Café is now open for your enjoyment. The operating hours
are 9:00am-8:00pm, Monday through Thursday.
Information about Fridays and weekends will be
posted soon. The winner of the "Name the Café" contest was Jennifer Riley.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone who entered. Some photos of the Bookmark, taken just
before the food was brought in, have been posted on the
library renovations page (scroll all the way down
to the bottom).

Here are some more things that happened during the intersession:

The Cedar Swamp
Historical Society Collection Project website was posted. Created by the
Digital Initiatives Department, this dynamic website
features roughly 100 signature items from this collection, dating back to the late 17th century,
that pertain to the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Long Island Railroad,
and the foundations of Quakerism in the United States. It also includes documents
from Long Island's founding families, rare and signed editions of books from celebrated
Long Island authors, and much more.

The new exhibit is in the Hutchins Gallery is KoreaNOW,
a wide survey of contemporary Korean art in every medium imaginable, with eighteen different
artists redefining what it means to be a Korean artist in contemporary art today. The
closing reception will be on Wednesday, February 14.

The front doors to the library are going to be replaced, and students, faculty, staff,
and alumni are invited to submit designs for
stained glass images to go in the arched windows above them. The winning
designer(s) will be awarded $500 for each window and
receive recognition on a plaque in the library. The deadline is February 1. For more details, go to
www.liu.edu/stainedglass.

01/12 : And the Winner Is... (and a Whole Lot More)

A name has been chosen, and the new Bookmark Café
will be opening for business with the new semester. The operating hours, as well as
some surprises, will be posted soon.

The Cedar Swamp
Historical Society Collection Project website has been posted. Created by the
Digital Initiatives Department, this dynamic website
features roughly 100 signature items from this collection, dating back to the late 17th century,
that pertain to the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Long Island Railroad,
and the foundations of Quakerism in the United States. It also includes documents
from Long Island's founding families, rare and signed editions of books from celebrated
Long Island authors, and much more.

The new exhibit is in the Hutchins Gallery is KoreaNOW,
a wide survey of contemporary Korean art in every medium imaginable with eighteen different
artists redefining what it means to be a Korean artist in contemporary art today. The
closing reception will be on Wednesday, February 14.

All are welcome to join us on Thursday, January 18, 2007 for a
Library Brown Bag demonstration of RefWorks presented
by Rob Battenfeld and Mellissa Hinton. RefWorks is a web-based tool for managing
your citations. This hands-on session is unique in that it will focus on database basics
from a user's perspective. It will include information on creating your own personal
RefWorks account, importing citations, generating formatted bibliographies, and
provide you with tips on how to deal with issues that arise as a result of the dark side of
RefWorks. We'll gather in the library instruction lab, room 220, from 10:00-12:00.
Please RSVP by Monday, January 15th. Email your reply to
mboyd@liu.edu.

Section 2 of the Library Workshop begins on Monday,
January 22. Section 1 begins on Tuesday, January 23. Section 4 begins on Thursday, January 25.

The front doors to the library are going to be replaced, and students, faculty, staff,
and alumni are invited to submit designs for
stained glass images to go in the arched windows above them. The winning
designer(s) will be awarded $500 for each window and
receive recognition on a plaque in the library. The deadline is February 1. For more details, go to
www.liu.edu/stainedglass.

01/09 : RefWorks Demo

All are welcome to join us on Thursday, January 18, 2007 for a
Library Brown Bag demonstration of RefWorks presented
by Rob Battenfeld and Mellissa Hinton. RefWorks is a web-based tool for managing
your citations. This hands-on session is unique in that it will focus on database basics
from a user's perspective. It will include information on creating your own personal
RefWorks account, importing citations, generating formatted bibliographies, and
provide you with tips on how to deal with issues that arise as a result of the dark side of
RefWorks. We'll gather in the library instruction lab, room 220, from 10:00-12:00.
Please RSVP by Monday, January 15th. Email your reply to
mboyd@liu.edu.

From Wednesday (1/3) through Friday (1/19), all library departments will be
open weekdays from 9:00-5:00. In addition, Reference Commons and Circulation will remain
open until 8:00 on Mondays through Thursdays. The library will be open on
Saturday (1/6) from
9:00-4:00 and closed all other weekend days until the Spring semester starts.

The front doors to the library are going to be replaced, and students, faculty, staff,
and alumni are invited to submit designs for
stained glass images to go in the arched windows above them. The winning
designer(s) will be awarded $500 for each window and
receive recognition on a plaque in the library. For more details, go to
www.liu.edu/stainedglass.

01/03 : Happy New Year!

The library website's 2007 Calendar has been posted.
You can print it out or bookmark it for your reference.

From Wednesday (1/3) through Friday (1/19), all library departments will be
open weekdays from 9:00-5:00. In addition, Reference Commons and Circulation will remain
open until 8:00 on Mondays through Thursdays. The library will be open on
Saturday (1/6) from
9:00-4:00 and closed all other weekend days until the Spring semester starts.

The Interlibrary Loan Department will be closed 12/23 through 1/4.
Requests received during this time period will be processed when the office reopens
on January 5, 2007.

The front doors to the library are going to be replaced, and students, faculty, staff,
and alumni are invited to submit designs for
stained glass images to go in the arched windows above them. The winning
designer(s) will be awarded $500 for each window and
receive recognition on a plaque in the library. For more details, go to
www.liu.edu/stainedglass.